Julie is tired of life and searches on the internet for fellow-spirits who want to die with her. Young August gets in touch and the two meet on a snow-covered cliff in Norway so as to commit suicide together. Their yearning for death has linguistic rather than biographical causes. For them living had always only meant "existing" and never being "vitally alive" in the middle of life. A real event led Bauersima to reconstruct the final hours of the two suicides and to add a completely original twist. They have to put on a show so as to film their final hours for posterity, but if they perform they don't feeling like dying ....." (S. Fischer Verlag)